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[Thomas Healy @ThomasHealyCEO]

Why is KARNO based on the Stirling engine?

Because it uses one of the best thermodynamic cycles.

The Stirling engine was invented nearly 200 years ago, and even then, it was recognized as an incredibly efficient way to produce power.

The challenge?

For 200 years, it’s been extremely difficult to actually build and commercialize.

That’s where additive manufacturing changes the equation.

By using 3D printing, we’re able to bring this technology to life in a way that wasn’t possible before, unlocking a highly efficient way to produce electricity.

[This Week in Startups @twistartups]

An Apache helicopter was shot down near the Strait of Hormuz.

Then, for the first time in history, an autonomous AI drone BOAT pulled the two-person crew out of the water with no humans aboard.

It was built by Saronic, a startup in our guest's portfolio. Here’s what he had to say! 👇

[Formlabs @formlabs]

Missed the Fuse X1 announcement yesterday? Here’s the TLDR...
🟧 330 × 330 × 565 mm build volume, with 30%+ packing density
🟧 50% lower part cost versus legacy industrial SLS and MJF printers
🟧 Less than half the floor space versus legacy industrial SLS and MJF printers
🟧 Same day large parts and 3x the throughput of competitors
🟧 AI-powered Print Intelligence failure prevention
🟧 One-hour installation, five-minute print changeovers, intuitive workflow requiring no dedicated operators

If you want to learn how to print larger than ever before click here https://t.co/3MxDmzqA4T

#3dprinting #additivemanufacturing

[SambaNova @SambaNovaAI]

When the team from @Forbes came to our San Jose headquarters, the conversation quickly became about more than just chips.

It became a discussion about the future of AI and what it actually takes to run it at scale.

As AI adoption accelerates, the challenge is no longer training models, it’s inference: running models efficiently, reliably, and fast enough to power the next generation of agentic applications.

As our CEO and Founder @RodrigoLiang put it:
“It's much lower power, much smaller footprint, and it's faster than anybody else. What's not to like?”

And as @Dthakker02 General Partner of @BatteryVentures explained:
"The technology that SambaNova has is very complimentary to what @intel has because most AI data centers need a combination of CPUs and GPUs."

A big thank you to @aton2006 and @v_mohan_ for helping bring this story to life and for the thoughtful conversations throughout the day.

We’re excited about what this shift means in practice, from premium inference and agentic AI to more efficient, sustainable data center infrastructure that lets enterprises deploy AI at scale, not just experiment with it.

And thank you to Kirsten Taggart and the team at @Forbes for spending the time with us and taking a deeper look at what we’re building.

🎥 Watch the full feature below.

[great cnc @GREAT_CNC]

24,000 rpm of high-power spindle, automatically replace 12 CNC tools, is this what you need? #cnc #cncmachine #CNCmachining #cncmachinist #cncmill #cncmilling #minicnc #cnclathe #vmc #5axis #machinist #tools #machinetools #greatcnc #factory #diy #design #creative #miracle #fyp

[Zach Dive @zachdive]

Just let Claude Fable 5 rawdog your CAD software

One @adamdotnew prompt and it designs an entire Boeing 747 in Autodesk Fusion

[Drone Wars @Drone_Wars_]

📸: Diehl Defence x POLARIS

[Interlatent @interlatent]

Our mission is to make it easy for anyone to deploy a robot to help them in the real world

We wrote an intuitive guide to understanding modern robotics, catered toward an audience that understands technology but not AI robotics

We hope that this short blog post embeds in you the core principles that will bring further curiosity.

[Impulse Space @GoToImpulse]

"Tom Mueller is driving his candy green Porsche Taycan Turbo S the way he builds rocket engines: with a terrifying amount of instantaneous thrust..."

Before titles like "the godfather of rocketry" were tossed in Tom's (@lrocket) direction, there was an engineer with a penchant for the impossible.

@elonmusk came asking, "Can you build something bigger?"

Tom spent the next two decades answering it, redefining what was considered possible, and helping lay the foundation for a generation of spaceflight that the world is still catching up to.

It's impossible to tell the story of modern spaceflight without Tom's story. And it's impossible to tell the story of its future without Impulse.

Forbes brings it all together ⬇️
https://t.co/viaXTPStR6

[mete @VaderResearch]

German robotics firm @NEURARobotics raises $1.4bn at $7bn 🇩🇪

🔵Investors include Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, Nvidia
🔵Neura builds industrial humanoids priced at $100k
🔵Aims to manufacture humanoids out of Europe

“This is the last chance for Europe to actually ever produce again in the world . . . if we own the physical AI stack and the robotics stack,”

🔴Current production capacity is at 6k robots per year
🔴German manufacturing giants Bosch and Schaeffler are among partners
🔴Building a platform where industrial customers to hire human trainers in motion-capture suits to perform tasks

[This Week in AI @ThisWeeknAI]

"I no longer really write code in the same way that I used to." - @theemozilla

Started in BASIC at age 8, built his whole identity on code. Jeffrey Quesnelle says the model finally caught up to him, and instead of mourning it, he gets to "rewind the clock and be eight or nine again."

Co-founder & CEO of Nous Research (@NousResearch), the open source lab behind Hermes Agent.

He joins @jason to talk functional AGI, the agent harness, and token budgets at a lean lab.

This Week in AI Episode 17 out now.

[This Week in AI @ThisWeeknAI]

"If you had a great tutor, you wouldn't sit down and say please write my paper for me." - @stevenbjohnson

The first generation raised on ChatGPT booed AI at graduation. Three founders unpack why, plus Apple's brand new Siri, NotebookLM's biggest update, and whether anyone "wins" the agent race.

This week @Jason covered these topics and more with:
• Jeffrey Quesnelle (@theemozilla) building Hermes Agent at Nous Research @NousResearch
• Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) Editorial Director of NotebookLM @NotebookLM and @GoogleLabs
• Russ d'Sa (@dsa) building the voice infra behind ChatGPT, Tesla & Grok at LiveKit @livekit

7 moments worth your time:
1:40 Hermes Agent and the open source race
7:32 Why AI got booed at graduation
10:48 LiveKit powering ChatGPT, Tesla, Grok
27:50 The massive Siri update
52:49 "Functional AGI, unevenly distributed"
57:24 Brittle to brilliant: agents that now just work
1:02:00 Tokenmaxxing and the $1M a year engineer

[Wevolver @WevolverApp]

Test-it-off is a modular robotic platform for automated PCBA testing and inspection, designed by KINALI for High-Mix, Low-Volume production environments. It replaces manual testing with a fully autonomous system that integrates with existing ICT/FCT testers, ensuring off-the-line testing without slowing production.

Test-it-off features a no-code, intuitive startup wizard that lets operators easily add new PCBAs to the system in under 60 minutes while product changeovers take only 10 minutes. ERP/MES connectivity guarantees full traceability and reporting.

Video Credit: Kinali

#engineering #technology

[Wevolver @WevolverApp]

Before reentering Earth’s atmosphere at the end of Artemis II, the Orion spacecraft’s crew module — carrying the astronauts — separated from the European-built service module that provided propulsion and power throughout the mission. This view of the separation was captured by cameras located on the service module’s solar array wings.

Credit: NASA

#engineering #technology #nasa

[Wevolver @WevolverApp]

Robotics innovation moves fast, but manufacturing often struggles to keep up. That's where urethane casting comes in. By combining low tooling costs, fast turnaround times, and production-quality parts, it gives robotics teams the flexibility to prototype, test, and iterate without committing to expensive mass-production methods.

From soft robotic grippers and wearable exoskeletons to autonomous systems operating in demanding environments, urethane casting helps bridge the gap between concept and commercialization. It's an increasingly valuable manufacturing approach for startups and established robotics companies alike looking to accelerate development while keeping costs under control.

Learn more: https://t.co/9QVsOxx9LC

#robotics #engineering #technology

@RPWORLD6

[Wevolver @WevolverApp]

Robotics is moving beyond impressive demos and into real-world deployment. Today, the challenge is no longer proving what robots can do in controlled environments, but ensuring they can operate reliably, safely, and efficiently at scale.

Whether in industrial automation, logistics, humanoids, surgical robotics, or autonomous mobility, success depends on more than AI and software. Motion systems, actuator integration, thermal management, safety, reliability, and overall system architecture are often what determine whether a robot becomes a viable product.

As the Global Business Development Manager, Robotics, at maxon, Mario Mauerer works closely with robotics developers across a broad range of applications. In this interview, he shares his perspective on what separates successful robotic deployments from demos, why motion-system design must happen early, and what robotics teams should prioritize as the industry scales into increasingly complex real-world environments.

Full interview here: https://t.co/52YGZwa5LU

#engineering #technology #robotics #robots

@MDPmaxonfrance

[Qualia @QualiaRobotics]

Qualia has been selected for the @GoogleDeepMind Robotics Program.

We train embodied models that put a robot on a real manual task and make it work, on the floor, not in a demo.

Foundation models and reasoning are where robotics is heading, and doing that work alongside DeepMind, who are pushing this frontier, is exactly where we want to be.

If you are a company looking to see how a new generation of robots can help your manual tasks, contact us at [email protected]

More soon

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

Vienna was on fire! 🔥

I had the pleasure of seeing @AGIBOTofficial in action, they seemed to be everywhere.

I got to test their UMI data collection device myself, and then check out their specialized dexterous hands (Agilink). They tracked my movements perfectly.

In addition, there were plenty of robots providing entertainment, as well as... popcorn.

But the most interesting part was the AGIBOT World Challenge.

It is a global robotics AI competition with a $530,000 prize pool, where teams race to build AI that can reason and physically act in the real world. It included 526 teams from 27 countries!

The best ones travelled to Vienna, ICRA to compete! 🙂

I had a chance to see how the teams were building physical AI solutions literally on the showfloor.

See you next year!

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[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

BREAKING: @NEURARobotics has just raised up to $1.4 BILLION in Series C funding, hitting a $7 billion valuation. 💰

The investor list is extraordinary:

NVIDIA, Amazon, Qualcomm, Tether, Bosch, Schaeffler and European Investment Bank

The full weight of American big tech, German industrial giants and European institutional capital, all behind one German humanoid robotics company.

Founded by David Reger, Neura has been one of the most important European robotics stories for the past two years.

This round confirms it belongs in the conversation with the very best in the US and China.

💬 Reger's words are worth reading carefully:
"Many believed globally relevant AI infrastructure companies could only emerge from Silicon Valley. We believe the next generation of AI leaders can emerge anywhere in the world where there is enough vision, engineering talent and execution speed."

The macro backdrop makes this even more significant. Robotics companies have raised $55.8 billion so far in 2026, a record figure nearly DOUBLE last year's record.

The next generation of AI leaders will not all come from Silicon Valley. 🇩🇪🇪🇺

IT'S HEATING UP HERE IN ROBOTICS.

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[sourcery @sourceryy]

General Catalyst CEO @htaneja: Silicon Valley glorifies the wrong values.

"Kindness and ambition are not at odds with each other."

"In Silicon Valley, we glorify the 'asshole symptom' of founders thinking it's almost a necessary ingredient to succeed."

"I don't think it has to be that way."